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My family is so inconsiderate. Mum makes me babysit until 1am even though I have to get up early the next day, I ask her to wake me up at 7-8am because I have an appointment at 11am which takes me 45-60 minutes to get there and takes me 2 hours to get ready in the morning.

It's now 9am and I've woken up without her even coming into my room. And my brother is running a long bath for himself.

I also probably don't have enough money for the bus since I just spent a load of money on train tickets for my mum (who didn't listen to me when I told her to get them when they were half price 2weeks ago)

I walked upstairs to get something and hear our outdoor cat screaming from down in our driveway area somewhere, and he cries every night to let us know he's out and hungry or wants to come in but he always comes to the porch when we call. He didn't come, and these weren't normal screams. They were scary screams that reminded me of one of my past cats when it was dying, and no one believed me cause he got quiet when they came outside and I was insanely scared and lost and didn't know what to do. Then I finally had them to come out and help search for him and we get dressed and get to the door and the effer is on the porch perfectly fine. I'm not really mad at him. I'm glad he's okay. I'm just mad that he got me so upset, in tears upset, to the point I was afraid to look myself cause I didn't know what I'd find. And that got everyone in the house upset and now I'm okay but... gahh. That darn cat :'(

So I mentioned visiting a new Japanese store yesterday and /u/Matronix requested pictures. Here are a few random things I saw, that reminded me of you guys, and just some sweet snack options. Random Pics

I only wear fun socks. Today's socks are Spiderman (courtesy of /u/Deaderpool7) themed. But yeah, a lot of my pairs are going missing and it's really annoying me. I might treat myself to a pair this check, but since it'll be short I'm sure that's all I'll be able to get. But maybe with my income tax monies...

I liked it. And I really love my old Disney princesses. But what the fuck with those glasses.

My SO loves space. It is one of his favorite things, and a huge passion of his. He used to stargaze when he was younger, and I thought getting him a beginner's telescope so he can go further into his hobby would be a good gift.

His favorite planets are Jupiter and Mars, and he loves the moon. I know Mars can be harder to get a clear view of, but he should at least be able to see the Moon and Jupiter. He lives in a small dorm currently, so I wanted to get something travel sized, or a smaller scope so it will fit. I already asked his roommates (also space enthusiasts, one is even going to college for astrophysics) and they said that he could absolutely have a telescope in the dorm, so that is not a problem.

We live on a campus in the mountains, and aren't really close to any big cities, so I don't think light pollution will be a problem. But he will have to hike a little to get to a nice clearing to get a good view of the sky, so that is another reason it should be on the smaller side.

The big problem is that I want to get him a good scope for under $100, as I can't afford anything more until much later. So I have narrowed it down to three options, and wanted advice on which would best suit his needs out of the three.

For the first two, which don't have the program to map out and find galaxies, stars, etc, I would just use the money to buy him some books and maps of stars so he could learn to star hop, which I think he would find more enjoyable anyway. What are your thoughts? Which of these are the best choice, and/or do you have a better option that you like more?

Always go for the largest aperture you can, in this case the 70mm. I've actually used the GoScope II before and it's not a bad scope. At the 70mm level the views of Jupiter and Mars will be smallish and fuzzy-ish, and that will be compounded by atmospheric conditions such as humidity and temperature. He will be able to see them though, just not in very much or very good detail, he would probably be able to pull a slight bit of detail out using upgraded eyepieces but it wouldn't be enough to make a huge difference. What will happen though is that he'll get the astronomy bug, learn about star gazing, star finding, etc, and this will make him want to eventually move up to a more robust scope in the future...and that's a great problem to have.

That is exactly what I was planning on, thank you! I know I can't get a good scope, but he has always wanted to get into star gazing and learn more about astronomy in general, and I thought this would be the push he needed. Thank you!

Well, sounds like my fiancée has decided that she wants to withdraw from her grad program at least for now and try to find a job in her field with her degree. She still has two part time jobs while she's looking, so it's not a total loss. I'm actually really proud she saw the same thing I did. She's looking to start back in fall with night classes after getting a real job between now and then. It will surely be interesting.

Also, this is going to do wonders for our budget. I think we will both be much happier even if she's really upset now.

So the store manager wants me to come up with ideas on how to 'spruce up' the break room. One of the ideas she liked was an example from another store where they had envelopes for every employee stuck nicely on a message board. The employees had decorated it themselves with their names, and it was used for any 'mail' that needed to be handed out. She liked this idea, but she didn't like the idea of using regular envelopes since she figured they'd rip and also cause we have way more employees than the example store. So she told me to brainstorm and figure out what we could do like this.

So I've been trying (well, sort of; I've been very busy what with my carpet getting all soaked and gross thanks to asshole neighbors) to figure out what sort of thing we could look into getting. It'd be nice if we could find something not-regular paper that could be tacked vertically on the board instead of horizontally like a regular envelope. So I turn to you, people of RAoA...even though this isn't a contest, I'd love to get some advice and suggestions on this. And then cheap and easy ways that people could use to decorate it themselves. I thought of just crayons and color pencils/markers, but maybe one of you guys will have another idea.

He hates the Valentine's Day hype, but this year agreed to cook dinner for me and we'll have an evening to ourselves. That's extremely special, because we live with a roommate so we never have "just us" time for very long. And I'm making him a decently large crocheted dragon for his gift because he wanted it.

He just told me that at some point, I gave him an idea. He got me a "pretty extravagant" gift, and he won't tell me what it is. This is a guy who hates surprises, and sucks at keeping them. But he will not tell me this one, not even a hint. It's driving me crazy!

I was going to say that many of the movies people look for on WLs I already own, including those. (I'm kind of a movie junkie. To the point where I'm not actually sure how to go about converting my DVD collection to digital. I had a problem with the bargain bin back when I was gainfully employed, and a desire to own most or all of the "re-watchable" movies. I don't have the Library of Congress of movies, or anything, but I've got a respectable couple of shelves full.)

Had a much nicer evening at home with the family despite having to take the initial part of it to go pick up my car from the dealership. A nice dinner (that I didn't have to cook myself for once), then some hanging out in the kitchen doing Khan Academy on my laptop while my wife and father-in-law played cribbage and my daughter did homework, then a game of cribbage with all of us, and now relaxing while my daughter does chores before bed. :)

After working from 1pm to 3:30 am yesterday, I got about 5 hours of sleep. I went back to work today at noon but I think because my body was in too much pain because out of nowhere, vomit. And some came out my nose. Awful. So they made me leave work at 7.

Ugh, I'm dying waiting to know if I got a job in Hawaii. I'm kinda upset because they asked me some very specific questions that I had to answer, and apparently they completely misunderstood my answers...they called me back to ask me more questions yesterday but I'm worried they won't believe what I said in trying to clarify. I really want the opportunity to be closer to my family cuz they pay for the moving assistance! Ughhh I'm gonna be heartbroken if I don't get the job. I know there's other jobs out there, but there aren't many that give you money to move in my field. Also, the thing they misunderstood has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with me. I said that my old boss closed down his business because of legal trouble and they assumed I was also involved--like wtf? What does that have to do with me?!

I saw like 30 mentions of "third thing" today from people who aren't /u/tragopanic. One day we might even see people new to the sub who know that third thing is an inside joke but don't understand how it connects to /u/tragopanic. Scary thought.

Okay, get some flatbread of some kind, and spread fig jam on it, then put goat cheese on top of that, then (and this is the clever bit) put the whole thing in a toaster oven until the jam gets all bubbly. Take it out and mush the goat cheese bits down and sprinkle a little salt on, and it's freaking delicious.

Holy fuck that sounds good. Tonight I had a goat cheese, walnut, and spinach salad. That's probably my favorite way to eat it. I also take a bun, cut it in half, spread goat cheese on it, then heat it up. I'm gonna have to try your fig creation though because that sounds too damn tasty.